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No. 566,641 Patented Aug. 25, 1896.

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No. 566,641. Patented Aug. 25, 1896.

PATENT FFlCE...

HENRY J. KVILDHAGEN, OF PALATINE, ILLINOIS.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 566,641, dated August 25, 1896.

Application filed March 24, 1896. Serial No. 584,609- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY J. VVILDHAGEN, of Palatine, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Plows, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates particularly to wheeled plows, and the object of the invention is to provide a support for the plowbeam and levers connected with the said beam and carried bythe said support, the lovers being so arranged and connected with the beam that when the beam is elevated the said beam will be turned in a manner to practically invert the plowshare, thereby spilling the entire material that may adhere to the share. By thus providing for the turning of the plowshare when the beam is raised the share will be kept clean, and the implement may be transported from place to place with out the plowshare contacting with the ground.

The invention consists in the novel con struction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved plow. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the same, the plow being in its lower or working position in both Figs. 1 and Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the plow, illustrating the share in an inverted and raised position. Fig. 4 is a transverse section through a guideway for one of the levers and illustrates the manner in which the lever is connected with the said guideway. Fig. 5 is a transverse section through the plow-beam and a side elevation of an arm which is connected with the said beam and is adapted to be attached to the lifting-lever for the beam; and Fig. 6 is a section through a portion of the shifting lever, illustrating the manner in which the lifting-lever is connected with the aforesaid shifting lever.

In carrying out the invention a frame A constitutes the body portion of the riding-- section of the plow, and a wheel 10 is mounted to turn at one end of the aforesaid frame,

while at the opposite end of the said frame a second wheel 10 is provided, the axle of which is attached to a slide 11, having vertical movement upon the aforesaid frame A, and preferably the slide is provided with slots 12, through which pins 13 or their equivalents are passed, the pins being likewise carried through the frame. The upper end of the slide is connected with the horizontal member 14 of a regulating-lever 14, the said lever being provided with a handle-section 14 which is fulcrumed upon the upper portion of the frame and extends upward therefrom, the handle member of the said regulating-lever having a suitable thumb-latch to engage with a rack 15.

An angular guideway 17 is located preferably between the center of the frame A and the right-hand end of the same. The body portion of the said guideway 17 is diagonally located with reference to the frame, or is inclined, connecting therewith at the top, while the lower portion 17 of the said guideway is perpendicular, and is at practically the lower portion of the aforesaid frame. A second guideway 16 is likewise provided at the righthand end of the frame, and the lower end 16 of the guideway 16 is below the lower portion 17 a of the upper guideway 17, and is also practically perpendicular.

The upper or body portion of the guide way 16 is segmental, while its outer or righthand end 16 is practically horizontal. Thus it will be observed that the two guideways 16 and 17 are practically at angles to one an- I other, both of them constituting a portion of the frame A.

A link 181s pivoted to the frame at or near the upper portion of its lefthand end, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the pivot being at one end of the said link; and the opposite end of the link 18 is pivot-ally connected with a second link 19, which is virtually a lever, since the said link 19 is provided with a pin 20, which has movement in the guideway 17. Therefore the aforesaid link 19 may be termed a lever having a shifting fulcrum.

The pin 20, as shown in Fig. 4, supports a friction-roller 21, which travels in the aforesaid guideway 17, and a washer 2-2 is located on the free end of the aforesaid pin 20, as is lever 25 is provided with a locking device for engagement with a rack 26 or its equivalent. The plow-beam 27 may be of any desired shape and may be of any approved material,

and the plowshare 28 may be of any approved formation.

An angle-arm 29 is pivoted near the junction of its members upon the inner side of the plow-beam, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5. One member of the :arm 29 is shorter than the other, the shorter member of the said arm being pivotally connected with the lower extremity of the lever 19, which is adapted to raise and lower the arm and consequently raise and lower the plow.

At the extremity of the longer member of the aforesaid arm a guide-pin 30 is located, constructed the same as the above-mentioned pin 20 of the lifting-lever 19, and the guidepin 30 of the plow-beam arm 29 is held to travel in the lower guideway 16, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

In the operation of the machine, when the shifting lever 25 is lowered to the position shown in Figs. 1 and '2, the lifting-lever 19 will be practically perpendicular, its movable fulcrum being at that time in the lower vertical section 17 of the guideway 17, and the member of the plow-beam arm 29 which is in engagement with the lower guideway 16 will be substantially perpendicular and located in the lower perpendicular portion 16 of the aforesaid guideway. WVhen, however, the shifting lever 25 is carried to the upper position shown in Fig. 3, the lifting-lever 19 will be in the position shown in Fig. 3, as likewise the beam-arm 29, the guide-pin of the said arm being at the end of the upper horizontal portion 16 of its guideway 16, and as the said beam arm 29 is carried along the bow or curved portion of the guideway 16 the plowbeam will be gradually turned until the landside of the plow will be in an upper position and its moldboard in a lower position; in fact, the plow will be in a great measure reversed or placed in such position that no material clinging to it. will be carried by it, but will readily drop therefrom.

The wheel 10 is made adjustable and controlled by the lever 14 in order to accommodate the wheeled support for the plow on slantingground or on a hillside, and, furthermore, one of the wheels may travel in a furrow, while the other wheel may travel on the surface of theground and the plow be manipulated to make furrows of uniform depth.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a wheeled plow, a support, a plowbeam, a sliding lever carried by the support and an angle-arm pivotally connected to said lever and attached to said beam, whereby said beam may be rotated about said anglearm as its axis and the plowshare inverted, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a Wheeled plow, a support, a plowbeam, a sliding connection between the plowbeam and the said support, the said sliding connection being such thatwhen the plow is raised or lowered it will be turned about its longitudinal axis, a lift-lever having a sliding fulcrum and operating to raise and lower the plow-beam, and means, substantially as de scribed, for controlling the movement of the lift-lever, as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a wheeled support having angular guideways at angles to one another, an arm having sliding relation with one of the said guideways, and a plowbeam pivotallyattached to the said arm, of a lever pivotally connected with the arm and 0 having a sliding fulcrum in the second guideway,.and a shifting device connected with the said lever, whereby it is operated in the aforesaid guideway, as and for the purpose specified. 5

4. The combination, with a frame provided with an angular guideway having'one portion thereof substantially vertical and the other portion inclined, the frame being provided with a second guideway at an angle to the first named, the second guideway having a vertical section and a curved section, of a plow-beam, a support for the said plow-beam pivotally attached thereto and having sliding movement in the curved and vertical portions of the lower guideway, a lift-lever having its fulcrum in the inclined and vertical portions of the upper guideway, and means, substantially as shown and described, for controlling the movement of the lift-lever, whereby as 'the plow-beam is raised or lowered the said beam will be turned, as and for the purpose specified.

5. The combination, with a frame provided with an angular guideway having one portion thereof substantially vertical and the other portion inclined, the frame being provided with a second guideway at an angle to that first named, the second guideway having a vertical section and *a curved section, of a plow-beam, a support for the said plow-beam pivotally attached thereto and having a sliding movement in the curved and vertical portions of the lower guideway, a lift-lever having its fulcrum in the inclined and vertical portions of the upper guideway, means, substantially as shown and described, for controlling the movement of the lift-lever, whereby as the plow-beam is raised or lowered the said beam will be turned, a link-pivotally connected with one end of the lift-lever, the said one end to said link and at its other end to link being pivotally attached to the said supan angle-arm, said angle-arm being pivoted 10 port, and a shifting lever having a swivel c011- at the j unction of its members to said plownection with the aforesaid lifting-lever, as beam, as and for the purpose specified.

5 and for the purpose specified. HENRY J. WILDHAGEN.

6. In awheeled plow, a frame, a plow-beam, \(Vitnesses: a link pivoted to said frame, and a lever hav- WM. G. 031,

ing a sliding; fulcrum pivotally connected at FRED H. VVILDHAGEN. 

